LAS VEGAS (Interstat) — Matthew Stafford threw three touchdown passes, and the Los Angeles Rams built a four-touchdown lead before holding off a fourth-quarter rally by the Las Vegas Raiders for a 35-21 National Football League victory on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium. Attendance was 62,550. The Rams ended a two-game losing streak and improved to 3-4. The Raiders, who entered on a three-game slide, dropped to 3-4. Los Angeles did most of its damage before halftime, then answered after Las Vegas pulled within 10 points in the fourth quarter. The Raiders twice failed on two-point conversion attempts, which kept them from making the finish more tense.

The Rams opened the scoring after an early touchdown run by Blake Corum was nullified by an offensive holding penalty. Stafford found Davis Allen for a 3-yard touchdown at 6:25 of the first quarter. Matt Gay put Las Vegas on the board with a 30-yard field goal with 51 seconds remaining in the quarter, but Los Angeles controlled the second. Stafford connected with Allen again for a 5-yard score, hit Puka Nacua for an 11-yard touchdown and watched Kyren Williams finish a drive with a 17-yard touchdown run. Gay added a 27-yard field goal just before halftime, sending the Raiders into the break trailing 28-6.

Stafford was the Rams’ top star, completing 23 of 29 passes for 195 yards and three touchdowns. He spread the ball to a deep group of receivers and tight ends while Los Angeles leaned on its running game to protect the lead. Williams finished with 16 carries for 99 yards and added two receptions for 22 yards and a touchdown. Corum had 17 carries for 93 yards and one reception for 8 yards, and he scored on a 4-yard run in the fourth quarter after having two earlier touchdown runs erased by penalties. Nacua contributed two rushes for 10 yards and eight receptions for 68 yards and a touchdown. Allen caught four passes for 20 yards and two touchdowns. Colby Parkinson had five receptions for 48 yards, Tyler Higbee added two catches for 14 yards and Konata Mumpfield had one reception for 15 yards.

Las Vegas quarterback Kirk Cousins completed 26 of 44 passes for 295 yards and two touchdowns, and he ran three times for 6 yards. The Raiders moved the ball well at times but could not finish drives consistently until the fourth quarter. Tre Tucker caught five passes for 103 yards and a touchdown. Ashton Jeanty had eight carries for 15 yards and eight receptions for 61 yards and a touchdown. Brock Bowers caught six passes for 73 yards, Michael Mayer added three receptions for 32 yards, Jalen Nailor had two catches for 14 yards, Connor Heyward had one catch for 13 yards and Ian Thomas had one for 8 yards. Cody White added a 4-yard reception, and Mike Washington Jr. ran six times for 27 yards. Gay made three of four field goals, connecting from 30, 27 and 36 yards.

The Raiders’ fourth-quarter surge came quickly. Cousins hit Tucker for a 37-yard touchdown with 14:51 remaining, but the two-point pass to Bowers failed. Cousins then found Jeanty for a 15-yard touchdown with 13:12 left, and a two-point pass to Nailor also failed. That left Los Angeles ahead 28-18. The Rams answered with Corum’s 4-yard touchdown run with 6:34 remaining, with Brandon McManus adding the extra point. Gay’s 36-yard field goal with 4:11 left capped the scoring. The sequence after Las Vegas cut the deficit to 10 was the most important part of the game, because the Rams ended the Raiders’ momentum and restored a three-score cushion.

Los Angeles also got production on defense. Quentin Lake led the Rams with seven tackles. Byron Young had six tackles and a sack, and Josh Wallace and Omar Speights each had six tackles. Kamren Kinchens and Jaylen McCollough each recorded five tackles, while Braden Fiske had four tackles and a sack. Kam Curl and Tyler Davis each had four tackles. Shaun Dolac and Jaylen Watson each had three tackles. Emmanuel Forbes Jr., Maximus Pulley and Ty Hamilton each had two tackles. Aaron Donald, Larrell Murchison, Desjuan Johnson, Steve Avila and Wesley Bailey each had one tackle. For Las Vegas, Quay Walker and Nakobe Dean each had 12 tackles, with Dean also recording an interception. Jeremy Chinn, Darien Porter and Tommy Eichenberg each had seven tackles, and Jermod McCoy had one.

Special teams played a secondary role but helped shape field position. Jordan Whittington returned two kickoffs for 54 yards for Los Angeles. Alex Bachman had one kickoff return for 19 yards and one punt return for 5 yards. Ethan Evans punted three times for 164 yards. For Las Vegas, Malik Benson returned two punts for 26 yards, and A.J. Cole had two punts for 112 yards. McManus handled the extra points for the Rams, while Gay accounted for nine of the Raiders’ points. Los Angeles also overcame the two nullified Corum touchdowns, one in the first quarter because of a holding penalty and one in the third quarter because of a face-mask penalty, to finish with 35 points.

The victory gave the Rams a measure of relief after consecutive close losses to Buffalo and Arizona. Los Angeles had dropped to 2-4 before Sunday after falling to Arizona and Buffalo in narrow games, and it had struggled to close out tight contests. The Raiders had lost to Buffalo and New England in their previous two games, and they remained unable to close a game against a conference opponent. Both teams now sit at 3-4 and will look to climb back toward .500 in their next games. For Los Angeles, Stafford’s efficiency and the running of Williams and Corum provided the offensive balance the team had lacked during its slide. For Las Vegas, Cousins’ yardage total and the connection to Tucker and Bowers offered encouraging signs, but the failed conversions and an inability to slow the Rams’ second-quarter surge proved costly.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Los Angeles 37, Las Vegas 29. Interstat’s ELO system had given the Rams a 76.4 percent probability to win. The Rams had been installed as a 3.5-point pregame favorite. The over/under line was 48.5, and the teams combined for 56 points.